@siouxer666 fun in the cold.

A video posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Apr 18, 2016 at 9:03pm PDT

Went to Broomfield park after running boards to Crisis. Riley, Garrett, Ladd and I. The park was really wet from the snow run off. The quartapotty had a path of water in front of it making it unskateable so the warm up process was harder then normal. Those dudes played skated while I pumped the bowl. Having the looser bushings felt really good. After a bit I filmed Riley do the gaps over the puddle. The front 50 gap out was 2nd try. So gnarly.

Best kind of session. @forde_photo me @siouxer666

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Apr 18, 2016 at 9:27pm PDT

Ladd and I played a game of SKATE to try and get warmed up again. He won with tricks like switch and nollie flip. You know, basic tricks I should be able to land by now. Then we had a black ledge session. Riley has such good halfcab crooks and back tail shoves. Ladd had 50s so easy. Garrett had to leave. Then we kind of just dorked out doing the triple rocks. They were a blast. It made my night to land it, they are much harder then they look.

(setup 8.38 null control room, venture wides, venom 88a bushings, bones stf 51mm v2, es accel slim black/white)

Was thinking I’d be in a parking garage for sure, but late in the afternoon the temperature went way up to 40 and the snow disappeared from the cement (it was still all over the grass). I started at this bank. Since I had blown out the PJs I was doing some closet cleaning and skating an old pair of Es Accel Slims. They felt decent, a little thin compared to what I’ve been used to so I was scared to commit to flippers sometimes. I started out on the bank. After some warm up carves and nollie shoves I started in with the flippers. The kickflip took awhile and then varial flip took so long I gave up and decided to go with 360 flip to fakie. I got a couple where I put the hands down, but that was about it. 45 minutes of frustration. I would try nollie flips or switch heels on the way back. I got close to nollie flips, but never put my feet on it.

Then I went to the other side of the building and tried to line out the manny pad for awhile. I was really hucking and posed some 360 flip disaster stalls on a curb. Got close to manual and nose manual front 180 out, f/s halfcab heel. I had begun realizing I would not actually land anything this day.

I went to leave, but saw this little curb cut I’ve never ollied. I wanted to line it out. Flip trick in the street, ollie up the curb, ollie the curb cut, do a downhill manual on the sidewalk across the street. I started by not being able to land halfcab flips. I chalked it up to new shoes and stuck with it and started landing them. I was hyped on how fast I would ollie up the little curb, but never got the curb cut. I’d say the angle was wrong, but really, it’s just me. It was depressing.

So I tried to cheer myself up with a couple more flip tricks on the bank before leaving. My first fakie flip was a total shinner. Ugh. Then it took like 5 more tries to land it. Man what a day. I did kickflip to fakie and then tried to do a cab tailblock. Got kind of close before posing 10 switch flips on the bank and calling it a day. At least I don’t expect to land a switch flip. Pretty rotten day, but was happy to be able to skate outdoors.

(setup 8.38 null control room, venture wides, venom 88a bushings, bones stf 51mm v2, es accel slim black/white)

Ok @boredzinejp here is the failtage you deserve. It's not much of a hip, but as you can see it's snowing like crazy so I don't have other options. I now have O-L-D in #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge I put a bonus slappy crooks in just so you can see the snow in the background.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Apr 16, 2016 at 5:19pm PDT

Another late spring snowstorm. This time of year is hard to get motivated to skate a parking garage. I went to Meta beforehand and got some softer bushings as I’ve been a little bummed on how stiff the 91a’s are. They felt good. Warming up somehow wasn’t too bad and I mostly tried some lines. Back 180 over a parking block, halfcab flip on flat, frontside slappy, front 50 over the parking blocks. Got a switch ollie or two over a parking block which felt neat. Got into a couple back tails, slappy feeble, kickflip over the parking block. Tried a line of switch 180 over a parking block, heelflip, slappy front crooks, but never got the heelflip. Doh. Got a few slappy front crooks that felt good (they felt so good until I saw the footage) and regular slappy crooks on the red curb. After awhile a car came and parked in the garage. They just sat their smoking weed. It was weird. They almost seemed to not even notice me. They were right in the middle of where I was skating. I tried a few flip tricks. I tried to not let them bother me, but it was just weird skating around a car with people sitting in it so I left. I was getting tired anyway.

(setup 8.38 null control room, venture wides, venom 88a bushings, bones stf 51mm v2, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

Went out to the garage for a brief one after an hour or so of fun times playing Rock Band with the kids. I started with manuals then tried about 15 switch heels one way and nollie flips the other way. I wasn’t close to either although I think I figured out a thing or two about foot positioning. Then I hit my hand on a shelf and got really angry and went inside.

(setup 8.38 null control room, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, bones stf 51mm v2, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

Went to this spot right after work. On paper it rules. Bank, ledge, not a bust, can skate whenever,etc. In reality it sucks. Cracks, bikers, weird approaches, etc. Anyways, I forced myself to dork around for a bit. Got a basic warm up line of switch front nose to forward, back smith stall, front board pop out. Tried some crooks up the little escalator. Dave showed. We tried a few things. Then we left.

(setup 8.38 null control room, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, bones stf 51mm v2, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

@nolancormier combos!

A video posted by Null Skateboards (@null_skateboards) on Apr 14, 2016 at 7:51pm PDT

After dinner and some football with Ollie, Nolan and I rolled to Broomfield park. It was pretty warm and somehow almost no one was there. It was crazy. Nolan and I started on the quartapotty area. It wasn’t long before he got gnar enough that I wanted to film it for a null post. Then we got a few more things (like the nosegrind above). Aki showed up around then. Everyone else seemed to leave and we pretty much had the park all to ourselves. Hit the black ledge/tiny rail/ brick qp for awhile. Nolan rattled off a bunch of tricks like switch nosegrind 180, switch front 5-0, etc. Aki worked on nose manuals for awhile and got one. He also did a front board to fakie on the flat bar. I had a crooks tapper on the qp, boardslides down the rail, crooks on the ledge, front 50 shove and front 5-0 on the ledge. Nolan tried dark slides for awhile. Aki did a bunch of blunts to fakie on the quartapotty. I got close, but did not do a nosegrind on the blue ledge. I was too sore to keep trying. Fun night.

(setup 8.38 null control room, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, bones stf 51mm v2, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

After work I went to the dog park and went right to work on trying 43 tricks. I only had about an hour and a half. The fakie bigflip was the biggest struggle which is weird since I used to have the trick almost every try. I also came close to both halfcab heelflips, but had to give up because of time. It was fun. I am sore from it.

(setup 8.38 null control room, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, bones stf 51mm v2, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

Cool night, but still nice out. I met Matt at a mostly empty Lafayette park. On my first lap through the park this dude was trying a huge flyout and I thought I cut him off from a gnarly transfer. Nope, he just ended up trying flyouts all night and never landed one that I saw. Warming up was ok. Lafayette rules when it’s not crowded. So many lines and weird options that don’t require ollies. Matt had took less tries to treflip up the euro then he did to kickflip up it. We did some roll ins in the bird bath, a few runs in the big bowl, some ledges, etc. It’s hard to document. I will say that I felt some of the best I have in awhile. I was actually trying to do tricks. We hit the big bowl for awhile again later on. I finally managed to carve tile in the deep end. Matt got his first grind in the shallow. That thing is so much work. We were both breathing like crazy. Some flatground went down. I was 1.5/2 on treflips, Matt landed on a nollie big heel. I got a back d on the noping near the entrance of the park which was new for me. I also did some type of rocket ollie flyout that may or may not have been over a cone. It was scary for me. Matt and I played on the tiny coping qp in the middle of the park. Matt got back blunt and I got a few front feebles to fakie and a blunt to back d. The lights shut off right as the only other person left at the park did a textbook nollie over the cone.

(setup 8.38 null control room, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, bones stf 51mm v2, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)

Tired and hungover from the late birthday celebration I just went into the garage for the ol’ manual pad minimum. It was fun.

Day 100 in a row! Morning warmup with Ollie. Such a fun start to the day.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Apr 9, 2016 at 9:59am PDT

I woke up early on a Saturday where I was supposed to skate with a bunch of people. It was hard to not go skating right away. After awhile I went out with Ollie. We did some dorking around. It was fun. 100 days in a row!

Rob, Fuzz and eventually Jack showed up and we did some manuals and powerslides in the street. It was warm and sunny and awesome.

Rain delay. Best crew.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Apr 9, 2016 at 3:15pm PDT

Then we headed to Evergreen. When we got there Bernie, Garret, Donnie and Riley were already shredding. Nolan showed up right after that and Matt showed up when the rain hit. Some blame him for the rain. Totally valid. The session started fast. It was kind of overwhelming. I did a lot of watching and not a lot of ripping. Everyone there seemed to be skating so good. Rob was busting long lines, Fuzz beat me to backside flip, Nolan had lines covering the entire park that were so insanely good, Garret is getting good, Bernie rules and did a front 180 fakie manual bigspin first try, Jack was chilling with a broken wrist doing perfect kickflips over the hip and huge gaps to tailslide, Donnie can shred everything, Riley did every flip trick there is over the hip with amazing style, I did not skate well at all. I had fun though, I was so stoked to be around so many great people.

Riley won the big game of SKATE. The brackets were: Jack Matt Riley Nolan Fuzz Rob Glen Bernie Garrett Donnie So fun.

A photo posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Apr 9, 2016 at 7:30pm PDT

It rained. We got food. We came back and had a big game of SKATE. Everyone was sore and full. I played Bernie. We both struggled hard, but it would get me warmed up and I skated the park a little better after that. Riley won the game of SKATE. Everyone kept at it. Matt added one of his textbook treflips over the hip to the long list of tricks done over the hip. It got dark quickly. The session ended with a dork session on the tiny curb high kicker. Nolan tried 360 flip to fakie. A few people did them. Lots of other “dork” tricks went down. I managed the elusive no comply bigger spin as probably the only “good” trick I did all day. River dances, boneless noseblunts, so many more tricks. It was a fun ender. Thanks to everyone who skated, you all rule, I love you all.

(setup 8.38 null control room, venture wides, venom 91a bushings, bones stf 51mm v2, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 steel/gum)